Are you kidding? This is the ULTIMATE white elephant gift! I know what I am buying for my office's Secret Santa this year...hahaha..

Are you kidding? This is the ULTIMATE white elephant gift! I know what I am buying for my office's Secret Santa this year...hahaha..

Are you kidding? This is the ULTIMATE white elephant gift! I know what I am buying for my office's Secret Santa this year...hahaha..

Does it matter? Stuxnet was installed from a USB hard drive, not over the internet. (unless that drive itself was infected over the internet? Who knows)

Yeah, fuck you io9 for getting me all excited that maybe his shop was open again

Ok, one advantage of the SSD over more RAM that you might have neglected is the increase in battery life. Also, most laptops nowadays are shipping with a pretty generous portion of RAM for most users (not all, of course). So many users might not really see any increase in performance by upgrading from 6GB-8GB or…

I wasn't impressed until I saw that quick shot of bond landing in the train car and straightening himself up and fixing his cuffs: that was an instant of quintessential bond-ishness. Maybe there is hope for the franchise.

Yeah, that's a mac feature. In windows, print screen creates a bitmap of the current screen and loads it into the clipboard. You could hit print screen all day and not notice anything unless you tried to paste your clipboard contents (unless you had a really big screen, and not enough RAM to hold it all or something).

Yeah, but to play devil's advocate: How many times has an axe to the skull been consensual?

No, Darth is right. We should be consistent about what constitutes an act of war; and if we have decided that we are actually going to declare war on Iran, we should do that.

Ok, from what I am seeing it doesn't look like this can actually duplicate itself: unless they just meant duplicating the case. It seems like it only extrudes and mills plastic.

Best Buy is probably marketing these to the same kinds of people who were willing to pay a $15 "calibration fee" for best buy setting up their 3D glasses for them.

I think the idea is that if Amazon can use an algorithm to predict ordering patterns accurately enough, they can stage your items close enough to you that same day shipping is feasible.

That's an interesting point. But if in 50 years drones replace ground troops completely; then wouldn't enemies just attack one another drone control centers? At that point, drone pilots would be in real danger and maybe combat medals would be appropriate.

No, I'm not buying that either. There are already many medals that reward non-combat excellence. I don't think a drone pilot deserves a combat medal for working a long hard shift if a soldier in a supply depot can't earn a combat medal for long hard shifts loading supplies.

I feel like Moore's Law kinda guarantees that my favorite computer will always be my most recent one. Maybe I just lack any emotional connection to my machines.

I would say no. The Silver Star is awarded for courage or gallantry in combat, and without personal danger I don't think you can display courage. Like I said, they should be recognized for their professionalism; but giving them combat medals is a bit of an insult to people who put their lives on the line to earn the…

Here is a list of the awards and decorations for the US military:

Oooh, yeah, that's a good one...